Middle East

Middle East

‘Mass death’ imminent in Gaza

Food shortages in parts of the Gaza Strip have already far exceeded famine levels, and mass death is now imminent without an immediate ceasefire and surge of food into areas cut off by fighting, the global hunger monitor said yesterday.

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Drop Rafah invasion plan ‘in name of humanity’

The head of the World Health Organisation appealed to Israel “in the name of humanity” not to launch an assault on Rafah, where most of Gaza’s population is sheltering.

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Israeli PM vows to invade Gaza’s Rafah

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed Sunday to send ground forces into Gaza’s southern Rafah city despite international fears for the fate of Palestinian civilians sheltering there. 

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21 dead in bus collision with tanker in Afghanistan: provincial official

Twenty-one people were killed and 11 injured in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province on Sunday when a bus collided with a tanker and a motorbike, a provincial official said

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Gaza truce efforts revived as first sea aid unloaded

Efforts towards a truce in the Israel-Hamas war appeared to rekindle yesterday after a new proposal from the Palestinian militant group which also called for more aid into Gaza, where the first food shipment by sea reached shore.

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Netanyahu okays plan for Rafah ground assault

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office yesterday said he had approved the military’s plan for an operation in Rafah, where most of war-battered Gaza’s population has sought refuge. 

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Aid efforts intensify for famine-stalked Gaza

Efforts yesterday grew to get more aid into the war-devastated Gaza Strip, where the UN warns of famine and desperate residents have stormed relief shipments.

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UN warehouse struck amid race for Gaza aid

The UN agency for Palestinian refugees said one of its warehouses in war-ravaged Gaza was hit yesterday, amid mounting efforts to bring food to the besieged Palestinian territory.

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First aid ship sails to Gaza as famine looms

A Spanish charity ship taking food aid to Gaza left the Mediterranean island of Cyprus yesterday in hopes of opening a maritime corridor to the war-ravaged Palestinian territory. 

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No Ramadan relief for Palestinians in Gaza

The first day of Ramadan arrived yesterday like others for Palestinians in war-ravaged Gaza: stalked by famine and disease, shivering in tents and threatened by bombs more than five months into Israel’s offensive in the Palestinian territory.   

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No Gaza truce in sight on eve of Ramadan

Deadly fighting raged in Gaza yesterday between Israeli forces and Hamas, with no truce in sight as the Muslim holy month of Ramadan neared and a dire humanitarian crisis gripped the besieged Palestinian territory.

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Ramadan to begin in Saudi Arabia tomorrow

Tomorrow will mark the first day of Ramadan in Saudi Arabia after the crescent moon was sighted in the country this evening

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Gaza war has ‘ruptured any sense of a shared humanity’

The war in Gaza has “ruptured any sense of a shared humanity,” the head of the International Committee of the Red Cross said yesterday.

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Iran arrests 2 women

Two young women were arrested in Tehran after the publication of a video in which they danced to celebrate the coming of the Persian New Year, Iranian media said yesterday.

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Gaza Maritime Aid Corridor: West pushes ahead with ‘unrealistic’ port plan

An international effort led by the United States gathered pace yesterday to get desperately needed humanitarian relief into Gaza by sea, in the latest bid to counter overland access restrictions blamed on Israel as it battles Hamas militants.

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Gaza offensive to continue

Israel will push on with its offensive against Hamas, including into the southern Gaza city of Rafah, despite growing international pressure to stop, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said yesterday.

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Israeli killing of reporter in Lebanon likely deliberate

An Israeli tank crew killed a Reuters reporter in Lebanon in October by firing two shells at a clearly identified group of journalists and then “likely” opened fire on them with a heavy machine gun in an attack that lasted 1 minute and 45 seconds, according to a report into the incident published yesterday.

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Gaza’s hungry await aid

Crowds of men ran through rubble-strewn Gaza City streets past fires and bullet-riddled cars in hope of reaching a rare aid convoy, risking their lives to get food for starving families as famine looms five months into Israel’s military campaign.

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